Law Glossary

Law Glossary

Hani Sarji
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Law Glossary

  • Preface
  • \#’s
    • 10-year rule
    • 18B attorney
    • 50/30/20 budget rule
    • 60/40 portfolio
    • 401(k)
    • 2503(c) trust
    • 7520 rate
  • A
    • abatement
    • abeyance
    • abrogate
    • abstract fees
    • Accelerated Cost Recovery System (ACRS)
    • accidental American
    • accounting period
    • accumulation planning
    • acknowledgment
    • acknowledgment of paternity
    • action for mesne profits
    • action for the recovery of mesne profits
    • action of trespass for mesne profits
    • active trust
    • activities of daily living (ADLs)
    • ActivityPub
    • ademption
    • adjourn
    • adjournment
    • adjusted gross income (AGI)
    • administration
    • administrator cum testamento annexo (c.t.a.)
    • administrator de bonis non (d.b.n.)
    • ad valorem tax
    • advance-and-protect strategy
    • affidavit
    • affidavit of entitlement in Nevada
    • affidavit of handwriting
    • affirmative defense
    • after-tax dollars
    • age-based 529 plan
    • agency mortgage-backed securities
    • agency mortgage bonds
    • “aggregate” approach to partnership taxation
    • Agreement Settling Account
    • aids
    • alienable
    • alienation
    • allodial
    • amend
    • American Citizens Abroad
    • amortization
    • annual compounding
    • annuitant
    • annuity
    • answer
    • antenuptial agreement
    • appellant
    • appellee
    • appraisal gap
    • appraisal gap waiver
    • appraisal waiver
    • articles of incorporation
    • artificial intelligence (AI)
    • asset allocation
    • asset protection
    • assignee for the benefit of creditors
    • autophagy
    • average liquidity coverage ratio
  • B
    • baby boomer
    • back-end SLAT
    • backfire effect
    • balanced portfolio
    • Barista FIRE
    • basis point
    • Battle of Hastings
    • bear market
    • bench trial
    • beneficiary
    • beneficiary form
    • bequest
    • bias
    • bill jacket
    • Billionaire Minimum Income Tax
    • blended family
    • bond
    • bond ladder
    • book value of a bond
    • “boomerang children”
    • borough English tenure
    • boundary line agreement
    • broker
    • brokering fractional shares in life insurance
    • brownfield site
    • BRRRR strategy 
    • bull market
    • burgage tenure
    • burial insurance
    • bylaws
  • C
    • cabined
    • California source income
    • call
    • callable bond
    • callable certificate of deposit
    • capital flight
    • capital gains
    • capital gains tax
    • capital loss
    • caption
    • casual ejector
    • catch and kill
    • catch-up contribution
    • CD ladder
    • cell reprogramming
    • certificate of deposit
    • certificate of incorporation
    • certified financial planner (CFP)
    • cestui que trust
    • chattel
    • Chevron deference
    • chose
    • chose in action
    • chosen family
    • codicil 
    • cognovit judgment
    • coins
    • collateralized debt obligation (CDO)
    • collateral heirs
    • combined loan-to-value ratio (CLTV)
    • Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
    • common law
    • community property
    • community spouse
    • commute
    • compound interest
    • concurrent interest
    • concurrent jurisdiction
    • concurrent ownership
    • conflict of laws
    • Congressional Review Act (CRA)
    • consideration
    • constructive fraud
    • Consumer Price Index (CPI)
    • contingent convertible bond (CoCo)
    • continuously compounding interest
    • contractual buyout
    • contractual will
    • contribution
    • convenience of employer rule
    • convertible bond
    • convertible virtual currency (CVC) kiosk
    • copyhold tenure
    • corporate bond
    • correction
    • correction deed
    • cost basis
    • cost of living
    • court
    • Court Baron
    • Court Customary
    • covenant of seisin
    • covenant for seisin
    • Coverdell education savings account (Coverdell ESA)
    • CPLR § 408
    • creator
    • credit quality
    • credit risk
    • Credit Suisse
    • credit washing
    • CRE industry
    • cryogenic freezing
    • crypto ATM
    • cryptocurrency
    • CUSIP number
    • CVC kiosk
  • D
    • Danegeld
    • dapps
    • DAPT
    • dead hand
    • debate
    • de facto
    • de jure
    • death benefit
    • Death on the High Seas Act (DOSHA)
    • death-put redemption clause in a certificate of deposit
    • death tax
    • decanting
    • decedent
    • decentralized apps
    • decentralized finance
    • declaratory judgment
    • decumulation
    • deed
    • default rule
    • defective grantor trust
    • defendant in error
    • DeFi
    • demesne
    • dependent tenure
    • deposit betas
    • derivative claim
    • derivative suit
    • designated Roth contribution
    • devisable
    • devise
    • devisee
    • dicta
    • digital asset account
    • digital assets
    • directed verdict
    • directed trust
    • disclaim
    • discretionary fiduciary investment adviser
    • discretionary power of appointment
    • discretionary trust
    • disposition
    • distributee
    • Domesday Book
    • donor
    • Donor-Advised Fund (DAF)
    • double spacing
    • double tapping
    • dovish
    • draftsmanship
    • due-on-sale clause
    • durable power of attorney
    • duress
    • duty of loyalty
    • duty of impartiality
    • duty of prudent administration
    • dwelling
    • dynasty trust
  • E
    • echo chamber effect
    • echo chambers
    • economies of scale
    • endowment fund
    • education inflation
    • effective tax rate
    • efficient market theory
    • ejector
    • elective deferral contribution
    • eligible designated beneficiary
    • emergency fund
    • enfeoff
    • “entity” approach to partnership taxation
    • equitable adjustment
    • equitable apportionment
    • equitable buyout
    • equitable conversion
    • equity risk premium
    • escheat
    • ESG factors
    • estate
    • estate planning
    • estate tax
    • estate tax cliff
    • execute
    • executor
    • diversification
    • ex-dividend date
    • ex-dividend effect
  • F
    • fair market value
    • family office
    • Fat FIRE
    • FDIC-insured sweep program
    • fealty
    • fear index
    • fee
    • fee-only advisers
    • feudalism
    • fiduciary
    • fiduciary accounting
    • fiduciary duty
    • fieri facias
    • filter buble
    • final
    • final expense insurance
    • final judgment
    • financial adviser
    • financial coach
    • financial consultant
    • financial elder abuse
    • financial independence
    • financial planning
    • FIRE movement
    • firm risk
    • first in, first out (FIFO) method
    • flat tax
    • flood zones
    • font
    • Form 941
    • four unities test
    • frankalmoin tenure
    • free tenure
    • freeman 
    • funeral insurance
    • future interest 
  • G
    • gaslighting
    • gavelkind tenure
    • general denial
    • general power of appointment
    • generation-skipping transfer
    • generation-skipping transfer tax (GSTT)
    • gift tax
    • gig work
    • gold
    • gold IRA
    • governance
    • government bond
    • Grammarly
    • grand serjeanty
    • grantor
    • grantor trust
    • gray divorce
    • gross estate
    • gross negligence
    • gross pay
    • guardian ad litem (GAL)
    • guardian by nature
  • H
    • habendum clause
    • hawkish
    • health care proxy
    • heir
    • high-net-worth individuals (HNWI)
    • high-yield bonds
    • holographic will
    • homage
    • honour
    • hosted wallet
    • human composting
    • hybrid DAPT
  • I
    • “I love you” will
    • ICE U.S. Dollar Index
    • Illinois Senior Citizens Real Estate Tax Deferral Program
    • illiquid estate
    • ILIT
    • impounded document
    • incidents of tenure
    • income-driven repayment (IRD) plan
    • Incomplete Non-Grantor Trust (ING)
    • incorporation
    • indenture
    • index number
    • indictment
    • individual retirement account (IRA)
    • Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN)
    • individually managed account
    • industry risk
    • inflation
    • inflation rate
    • informal settlement of an estate
    • inheritable
    • inheritance
    • inheritance tax
    • installment debt
    • installment loan
    • insurable title
    • intentionalist
    • intentionally defective grantor trust (IDGT)
    • inter alia
    • interest rate risk
    • Internal Revenue Code (IRC)
    • Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA)
    • intestacy law
    • intestate
    • inverted yield curve
    • investment adviser
    • Investment Advisers Act of 1940
    • investment grade-rated company
    • involuntary alienation
  • J
    • joint tenancy
    • joint tenancy with right of survivorship
    • joint will
    • Juneteenth
    • junk bonds
    • jurisdiction
  • K
  • L
    • labor hoarding
    • laddered bond portfolio
    • land trust
    • last-in, first-out (LIFO) method
    • “laughing” heir
    • Lean FIRE
    • legacy
    • legal list state
    • legal obligations of an estate
    • legal rate of interest
    • legatee
    • letters
    • life estate
    • life estate pur autre vie
    • life insurance
    • life insurance trust
    • life settlement
    • lifetime trust
    • lineal ancestors
    • lineal descendants
    • liquid asset
    • loan principal
    • loan-to-value ratio
    • longevity risk
    • long-term care insurance
    • long-term services and supports (LTSS)
    • loophole
    • lord
    • Lucas v. Earl, 281 U.S. 111 (1930)
  • M
    • managed account
    • manor
    • manorial court
    • marginal tax rate
    • market risk
    • market value of a bond
    • marketable title
    • mass affluent
    • maturity
    • may
    • measuring life
    • mediator
    • Medicaid Asset Protection Trust (MAPT)
    • Medicare Part B
    • merger
    • mesne profits
    • midtier millionaires
    • military tenure
    • “millionaires next door”
    • mistaken reversal
    • modern portfolio theory
    • money market fund
    • money market mutual fund (MMMF)
    • monospaced typeface
    • mortgage insurance premium
    • mortgage protection insurance
    • mortgage recasting
    • motherhood penalty
    • motion to dismiss
    • municipal bond
    • multiple dwelling
  • N
    • natural burial
    • N.B.
    • net asset value
    • net investment income tax (NIIT)
    • net pay
    • net sales
    • New Domesday Book
    • next of kin
    • NFTs
    • nominal consideration
    • non dat qui non habet
    • non-discretionary fiduciary financial adviser
    • nonfungible tokens
    • non-grantor trust
    • non-judicial settlement of an estate
    • nonmatching contributions
    • non-probate asset
    • normalcy bias
    • Norman Conquest
    • nota bene
    • notice of appeal
    • nullius in verba
  • O
    • obiter
    • occupant
    • off-the-rack rule
    • off-the-shelf rule
    • “One Shot Deal”
    • order
    • ostrich effect by investors
    • overreaching
  • P
    • part performance
    • partnership
    • passive trust
    • pass-through entity tax (PTET)
    • patrimony
    • pay-as-you-go
    • pay-go
    • pecuniary distribution
    • pension fund
    • persistence bias
    • Personal Consumption Expenditures Index (PCPI)
    • petit serjeanty
    • petition
    • petition for a writ of certiorari
    • plaintiff in error
    • point size
    • poll tax
    • portfolio manager
    • postponed power of appointment
    • pour-over will
    • power
    • power of appointment
    • power of attorney
    • precatory language
    • predecease
    • present interest
    • preservation planning
    • presumption
    • primer seisin
    • primogeniture
    • principal
    • principal-agent problem
    • private mortgage insurance
    • private trust company
    • probate
    • probate assets
    • probate estate
    • profit
    • progressive tax
    • projection bias
    • proportionally spaced typeface
    • pro tanto
    • PTET
    • public record
    • purposivist
    • put
  • Q
    • qualified charitable distribution (QCD)
    • Qualified Terminable Interest Property Trust (QTIP)
    • quantitative easing
    • quantitative tightening
  • R
    • Rashomon effect
    • ratio decidendi
    • reacquired stock
    • real estate
    • real property
    • realization
    • Receipt and Release Agreement
    • Receipt, Release, Refunding and Indemnification Agreement
    • recession
    • record date
    • regressive tax
    • reinvestment risk
    • remaining executor
    • relief
    • remedy of distress
    • remote-ink notarization (RIN)
    • remote online notarization (RON)
    • rent
    • renunciation
    • required beginning date
    • required minimum distribution (RMD)
    • res
    • res judicata
    • restricted document
    • Restricted Property Trust
    • resulting trust
    • retirement
    • retirement plan fiduciary adviser
    • retirement planning
    • Revenue Ruling 85-13
    • Revenue Ruling 2004-64
    • reversion
    • revolving debt
    • right of sepulcher
    • risk management
    • risk premium
    • risk-return curve
    • risk-tolerance surveys
    • robo adviser
    • rollover
    • Roth conversion
    • rule against perpetuities
    • Rule of 72
  • S
    • salary reduction contribution
    • sanism
    • sans serif
    • scoring a bill
    • scutage
    • seal
    • section 7520 interest rate
    • secured debt
    • seisin
    • self-declared trust
    • self-settled trust
    • separately managed account (SMA)
    • serif
    • serjeanty tenure
    • service
    • service of process
    • settlement
    • settlor
    • short sale
    • short-term capital gains
    • shorting a stock
    • silent trust
    • Silicon Valley Bank
    • skip person
    • slave
    • socage tenure
    • sole proprietorship
    • Sotheyb’s
    • sovereign wealth fund
    • special guardian
    • special needs trust
    • special verdict
    • spendthrift clause
    • SPLAT
    • sprinkle trust
    • squeaky wheel principle
    • stagflation
    • standard deduction
    • state and local tax (SALT) deduction
    • static 529 plan
    • status quo bias
    • Statute of Frauds
    • Statute of Wills (1540)
    • Statute Quia Emptores (1290)
    • statutory buyout
    • statutory will
    • stipulated facts
    • “still working” exception for RMDs
    • stock buyback
    • subject to
    • subpoena ad testificandum
    • subpoena duces tecum
    • successor agent
    • successor trustee
    • sundowner’s syndrome
    • supplemental needs trust
    • supported decision making
    • surcharge
    • surrender and admittance
    • surviving executor
  • T
    • target-date fund
    • tarrif
    • tax accounting
    • tax advisory services
    • tax bracket system
    • tax cliff
    • tax compliance services
    • tax credit
    • Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)
    • tax deduction
    • tax installment agreement
    • taxable income
    • tax-loss harvesting
    • tax planning
    • tax preparation
    • tax rate
    • T-bill
    • tenancy by the entirety
    • tenancy in partnership
    • tenant in capite
    • tenant-in-chief
    • tenant in demesne
    • tenants paravail
    • tenure
    • tenure by divine service
    • tenure by knight service
    • term
    • testament
    • testamentary substitutes
    • testamentary trust
    • testate
    • testator
    • the 4% rule
    • the fiduciary obligation
    • the great wealth transfer
    • The New Domesday Book
    • the observer effect
    • the TINA effect for stocks
    • Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)
    • time value of money
    • title
    • title insurance
    • title report
    • tokens
    • total return
    • total return swap
    • total return trust (TRT)
    • total value locked
    • Totten trust
    • Treasuries
    • treasury bill
    • Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS)
    • treasury shares
    • treasury stock
    • trial by judge
    • trust
    • trust fiduciary law
    • trust indenture
    • trust protector
    • trustee
    • trustor
    • turnkey property
    • typeface
  • U
    • ultra-high-net-worth individuals (ultra-HNWI)
    • ultrashort bond strategy
    • underscore
    • undervalued investment
    • undue influence
    • unfree tenure
    • unhosted wallet
    • Uniform Fiduciary Income and Principal Act (UFIPA)
    • Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act (UMIFA)
    • Uniform Principal and Income Act (UPIA)
    • unitary executive theory
    • unitrust
    • unrealized gain
    • unrealized gains tax
    • unrealized loss
    • unseal order
    • unsecured debt
    • upstate New York
    • U.S. Treasuries
  • V
    • vassal
    • venue
    • verification
    • vest
    • villein
    • virtual currency
    • vouch to warranty
    • virtute officii
    • VIX
    • volatility index
  • W
    • waive extradition
    • wallet
    • warrant of eviction
    • wardship
    • wash sale
    • waste
    • wealth adviser
    • wealth transfer
    • wealth-transfer taxes
    • WebSurrogate
    • wiki
    • wiki link
    • will
    • will substitute
    • woke
    • words of limitation
    • words of purchase
    • wrap account
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